Letter from Robert Rutledge to G. R. Rutledge describing the state of his current encampment near his Uncle Sam and Aunt Elzira's property. He explains that due to pillaging by the army the local population now despises the Confederate army almost...

Imprisoned with Shadrick Lee at the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Ga., H. H. Redkey corresponded with Lee more than 40 years after the Civil War ended. He mentioned the "starvation, filth, abuse and everything else that could help kill...

Order from Confederate General James Longstreet, issued by Assistant Adjutant General William Small, directing the men to maintain their fortitude while enduring reduced rations and other hardships of the field, and presenting a letter captured...

This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...